I don't know if this is the same thing as what you all are talking about. Like today I have all this negative chatter going on in my mind and anxiety which is eventually going to lead to a major anxiety attack and possibly a panic attack if I don't get a handle on it and put a stop to it. If I let it go on on I will be paralyzed emotionally and not be able to leave my house again.
Today is the last day of my sewing class they are having a tea party today. I am supposed to be their in 45 minutes and I am not ready yet as usual. I go through this every time I try to leave the house. I am really sick of it. Maybe this is a question for the expert. How do I leave me house and lead a normal Life? I would like to know!!!
I.m trying to find some way to break this dwelling, I mean if I can tell a panic attack to get lost and it will why can't I make that dwelling do the same. I don't like how draining they are. I'm guessing that just telling the panic to get lost without replacing it with something pleasant (positive) is leaving a bare spot for negative to fill. Like leaving a fight with a partner without resolution, you dwell till you get closure. I will try to tell the panic to get lost but add a reason why it should, something pleasant for a reason it should so it is closed out and there is no reason to dwell on it. This should work but since I get few panic attacks and when I do they are more like night mares it may take a while to see if this works. I hope so because this dwelling on the panic attack that is gone is very depressing and I go into neutral and get nothing done.
I totally understand....sometimes the lingering effects are worse then the actual panic attack for me...which increases my negative thinking which in turn makes me more prone to another panic episode ... since coming here and doing my positive reinforcement thinking my residual worrying has decreased...so I attribute a big part of my lessend panic to that. But its not easy..especially when the negative feelings are so strong.
Davit said here not too long back...if we had a broken leg we would accept it...do what we needed until it healed...not worry about it coming back , or dwelling on it...I wish I understood why its so different with panic. A 5 minute attack can leave me drained and anxious ...I can worry about it for days..even weeks... sometimes I think I let it consume me.You are not alone .
Me too wrestler. I can make a panic attack go away but that dwelling and picking that comes later is worse. It doesn't happen often but it does happen and when it does it is very annoying but this too I feel will go also in time.
yes, wrestler, exactly as you describe. I would be just fine, then laugh at a joke, or just having fun with people, and that anxious/panic feeling would come. I would stop laughing and wonder, why? I was having a good time, wasn't stressed out over something. Later, felt down and scared that it would happen again and also, the negatives would start. The, "I'll never get better", "what's wrong with me?", etc. This too passed with time though. I don't get that at all anymore. Looking back now, I can see that it was one of those steps back with the fear attached. Keep thinking positive thoughts, keep remembering that it's just a hiccup and take some deep breaths. It will pass.
This has happened to me many times in my life so this is no surprise. Last weekend, my wife and I were driving to see my mother on the Interstate and I have this habit of talking to fast and not breathing correctly. Basically I was laughing and talking and then all of a sudden I had a small anxiety/panic attack.
So now it's over a week later and I am experiencing the residual effects of the attack: Depression, anxiety, doubts about feeling better, wondering if it will get worse, scared of having another one, and the pressure on my head when I am either thinking too much or become stressed. It's always been weird when I experience the after effects of panic and this one is giving me some trouble.
Does anyone else have the after effects of panic similar to what I have described?
